enabling Bluetooth in Fedora

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:01:31 -0600 Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 20.12.2010, 18:29 -0600 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:32 -0600 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 12/20/2010 03:46 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > > I am a complete novice in this so pardon the naivete of the question. I
> > > > was wondering if there is an easy way to enable Bluetooth in F14. I
> > > > have a Thinkpad T61 and a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop apiece, and my hope
> > > > is to use the Bluetooth to use my GPRS phone as well as wireless mobile
> > > > while I am traveling. The providers do not seem to be excited about
> > > > Linux support.
> > > 
> > > If you had a bluetooth dongle or something in your system when you
> > > installed, it should already be enabled.  If you're using Gnome, look in
> > > the right third of the top menu bar and you should see a bluetooth
> > > symbol.  Right click on it and you can set things up.
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Thanks, Rick. I have been using LXDE: any suggestions on that? I will
> > also post this to the LXDE Fedora mailing list to see if someone there
> > has suggestions.
> 
> LXDE does not yet have a bluetooth program but you can install
> gnome-bluetooth and it works just fine as Rick described. Make sure the
> gnome-bluetooth-applet is enabled in lxsession-edit so it gets loaded
> when you login to LXDE. Then click on the icon, add your mobile and
> follow the wizard. At the end it will ask you if you want to use your
> mobile for dial-up and then start the wizard of network-manager.

Thanks, Christoph! Thanks to your detailed instruction, I have been
able to get the phone recognized via bluetooth.

Many thanks again and best wishes,
Ranjan